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rectangyesterday at 4:04 PM2 repliesview on HN

If the AI gets attached to a health insurer (not the case here as far as I know), I would expect it to make decisions that are aligned with the company’s incentive to weed out unprofitable patients. AI is not a human who takes a Hippocratic oath; it can be more easily manipulated to perform unethical acts.


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stvltvsyesterday at 4:11 PM

AI is an overloaded term, so I'm not sure whether insurers are using LLMs or more traditional ML, but they are already using "AI" to deny claims.

https://www.liveinsurancenews.com/health-insurance-claims-de...

PUSH_AXyesterday at 4:38 PM

I don't think anyone would use an AI with such a severe conflict of interests, unless this was completely hidden from the user.

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